Someone commented on my last blog post that I should make a list of fourteen books to leave on a hired narrowboat, so that whoever was on the boat would find at least one book that suited their taste. It's such a hard task, but here goes...
A comedy - a Jeeves and Wooster book by P.G. Wodehouse
A crime novel - by Ian Rankin or Christine Poulson
An intelligent chick-lit book, such as Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding or You Before Me by Jojo Moyes or Plotting for Beginners by Sue Hepworth and Jane Linfoot
A biography - Claire Tomalin's Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self
A poetry anthology - Staying Alive ed. by Neil Astley, or Lifesaving Poems ed. by Anthony Wilson
A book on politics - The Establishment by Owen Jones
A thriller - please help me here!
A historical novel - The Siege by Helen Dunmore or The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
A book of short stories - Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor
A memoir - I am Malala
A non-fiction book (I nearly forgot this category as I don't read non-fiction) - something readable about the history of canals
A Charles Dickens novel - you pick, as I am not a Dickens fan
Two contemporary novels - I suggest Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strouut, which are both accessible literary fiction.
So what do you think?
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2 comments:
Your list is interesting but I don’t understand your comment about non-fiction when you’ve already mentioned three non-fiction categories: biography, poetry and political comment. I hadn’t thought about short stories, but of course they are perfect for the boat because you can read one quickly and still have time to enjoy the passing countryside, whereas a gripping page-turner would create a dilemma and raise the question as to why you are on the boat in the first place.
When I think of non fiction I think of FACTS.
I also realised that I don’t have a travel book in here.
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